Scandinavia: The West's Citadel of Anti-Semitism

Hate for Israel has become a real obsession in Scandinavia, which revived the glorious partnership between the liberal "useful idiots" -- the ones concerned about equality and minorities -- and the Islamists, the ones concerned about submission and killing "infidels".

Despite the fact that Jews in Norway are only 0.003 percent of the total population, Oslo is now world's capital of European anti-Semitism. Norwegian newspapers are full of classic anti-Semitic tropes.

A festival in Oslo also rejected a documentary, "The Other Dreamers," about the lives of disabled children, simply because it was Israeli. "We support the academic and cultural boycott of Israel," wrote Ketil Magnussen, the founder of the festival.

The same racism exists in Sweden. Dagens Nyheter, the most sophisticated Swedish newspaper, published a violently anti-Semitic op-ed entitled, "It is allowed to hate the Jews".

Does Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallström really mean that to defeat Islamic aggression, Israel must surrender? The Palestinians' situation is indeed desperate, but as they have had full autonomy for decades, their desperate situation is caused by their own corrupt leaders who appear deliberately to keep their people in misery try to blame it on Israel, in the same way that people maim children to make them "better" beggars.

The Nazi daily Der Stürmer could not have drawn it better.

On January 12, the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten published an article about Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and his senior adviser: "The Jew Kushner reportedly pushed for David M. Friedman as the new ambassador to Israel", Aftenposten wrote. The newspaper had later to apologize for calling Kushner "the Jew".

A few weeks earlier, the city council of Trondheim, Norway's third-largest city, passed a motion calling on its residents to boycott Israeli goods -- a city aspiring to be "Israel-free". Then it was the turn of another Norwegian city, Tromso, population 72,000, whose city council approved a similar motion. More than 40% of Norwegians are already boycotting Israeli products or are in favor of doing so, according to a poll.

What hell is happening in Scandinavia, whose countries, Norway and Sweden, are bastions of political correctness, champions of multiculturalism and, according to the Global Peace Index, the most "peaceful" countries in the world? "The most successful society the world has ever known", however, as The Guardianlabelled Sweden, has a dark side: Israel-slandering and anti-Semitism.

Sweden and Norway are manipulating public opinion in the way immortalized by George Orwell in his novel "1984" as the "Two Minutes Hate". These countries have seen the creation of a public opinion according to which Israel is a merciless enemy of humanity that ought to be dismantled forthwith.

A year ago, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, an updated map of Israel's friends and enemies. Only five countries are openly at war with the Jewish State: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and North Korea. Then there are the friendly countries, including many non-Muslim African countries that once had no diplomatic relations with Jerusalem. But the map also included a European country that for the first time moved into the "non-friends" camp: Sweden.

Hate for Israel has become a real obsession in Scandinavia, which revived the glorious partnership between the liberal "useful idiots" -- the ones concerned about equality and minorities -- and Islamists, the ones concerned about submission and killing "infidels".

Despite the fact that Jews in Norway are only 0.003 percent of the total population, Oslo is now world's capital of European anti-Semitism. Recently, the Norwegian National Theater opened its Festival in Oslo with a dramatic video clip. The video urged a boycott of the National Theater of Israel, Habima, in Tel Aviv. Funded by the government and aired at the festival, the clip shows an actress posing as a spokesman for the National Theater and calling for a boycott of the Israeli theater. Pia Maria Roll labelled Israel a state "based on ethnic cleansing, racism, occupation and apartheid". Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded saying that the seven-minute video recalls "the Norwegian collaborationist Vidkun Quisling and Knut Hamson" (a Nobel laureate for Literature who sympathized with Hitler).

It is not the first time. A festival in Oslo also rejected a documentary, "The Other Dreamers," about the lives of disabled children, simply because it was Israeli. "We support the academic and cultural boycott of Israel," wrote Ketil Magnussen, the founder of the festival.

Norway is the European country most engaged in the campaigns against Israel. All Norwegian universities refused to host Alan Dershowitz for a speaking tour about the Middle East. A proposal for an official academic boycott against Israel was promoted by Norway's University of Trondheim. If approved, the boycott would have been the first of its kind in a European university since the Nazi boycott of Jewish professors.

The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has excluded Israeli companies, such as Africa Israel Investments and Danya Cebus, from its Global Pension Fund, a fund that invests the national wealth in foreign stocks and bonds, and which holds more than one percent of all global stocks. The Norwegian trade union EL & IT, which represents workers from the energy and telecommunications sectors, has boycotted the Histadrut, Israel's national labor union.

In Norway, anti-Semitism has affected many "intellectuals". One is Johan Galtung, a Norwegian sociologist dubbed the "father of peace studies", a proud leftist who made anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli statements at the University of Oslo and who claimed (falsely) that there is a link between Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the massacre at Utoya in Norway, and the Mossad.

Norwegian newspapers are full of classic anti-Semitic tropes. A cartoon in the largest newspaper, Verdens Gang, showed the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's feet as those of an animal. In Aftenposten, the second-largest newspaper, a rat eats the Star of David, the symbol in the Israeli flag. Another daily, Dagbladet, a glory of the Norwegian Left, published a cartoon in which Palestinian terrorists leave an Israeli prison with the German motto of the Buchenwald concentration camp: "Jedem Das Seine".

Evelyne Zeira, who works at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, asked a Norwegian researcher, Ingrid Harbitz, to send her material to develop treatments for Palestinian victims of thalessemia, a blood disease. Harbitz's answer was: "Due to the current situation in the Middle East, I will not deliver material to Israeli universities". To her, Israeli Jews and even Palestinians do not deserve Norwegian blood!

During Israel's war against Hezbollah in 2006, the daily Aftenposten published an article by Jostein Gaarder, Norway's most famous writer and a "thirdworldist", in which he imagined the destruction of Israel. Gaarder, whose novel "Sophie's World" has been translated into 53 languages ​​and has sold millions of copies, justified the expulsion of Israeli Jews from their land. "We no longer recognize the State of Israel," Gaarder wrote, as if he were an Iranian imam.

The same racism exists in Sweden.

A few days ago, the Swedish Parliament discussed a deal between Volvo, the country's most important car maker, and the Israeli bus companies. Volvo provides, in fact, some buses which keep the Israelis alive in Judea and Samaria. Jewish schoolchildren in these areas have to use armored buses to avoid being shot and murdered by Palestinian terrorists. But according to the chairman of Sweden's parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, Kenneth G. Forslund, their right to life, granted by Volvo's buses, is "a violation of international law". Swedish dockworkers sponsored a week-long boycott of Israeli ships and goods. The old good days when Swedish ships saved the Jews from Nazis are gone.

Sweden's former Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Mehmet Kaplan, a Muslim of Turkish origin, took part in the pro-Hamas assault against Israel by the "Freedom Flotilla" in 2010. He compared Israel to Nazism and called for the "liberation of Jerusalem". The education minister, Gustav Fridolin, has been arrested for protesting in front of the anti-terrorism fence built by Israel in Judea and Samaria to protect the lives of their citizens on the coastal plain, massacred by suicide bombers.

Recently, Swedish public television broadcast "The Occupation of the American Mind", a conspiracy film about the "Israeli Lobby" supposedly controlling in the United States. During the Second Intifada, in a Stockholm Museum, a photograph was reprinted of a smiling female Palestinian suicide bomber, who had killed dozens of Israelis at a restaurant in Haifa. The photograph was mounted on a tiny white boat floating in a pool of blood-red liquid. Aftonbladet, Sweden's largest daily newspaper, then ran an article by Donald Bostrom where, without any evidence, he charged the Israeli army of harvesting the organs of Palestinians.

Dagens Nyheter, the most sophisticated Swedish newspaper, published a violently anti-Semitic op-ed entitled, "It is allowed to hate the Jews", in which the historian Jan Samuelson said that until Israel ceases to "occupy" the territories, hatred for the Jewish State will be justified. He totally disregards, however, that the Jordanians illegally seized the territories in the aggression they initiated against Israel in the War of 1948; in 1967, Israel, in fact liberated its own land from illegal Jordanian occupation.

After Trump's election, the daily Dagens Nyheter ran an anti-Semitic cartoon, in which the Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President-elect were being carried by an Orthodox Jew, a Ku Klux Klan member and a gun-carrying man branded with the Israeli flag. The Nazi daily Der Stürmer could not have drawn it better.

After the massacres of November 13 in Paris, Sweden's minister of Foreign Affairs, Margot Wallström, said that "to counter the radicalization we have to go back to the situation in the Middle East where the Palestinians see that there is no future for them and must accept a desperate situation and resort to violence".

Does Wallström really mean that to defeat Islamic aggression, Israel must surrender? The Palestinians' situation is indeed desperate, but as they have had full autonomy for decades, their desperate situation is caused by their own cynical and corrupt leaders who appear deliberately to keep their people in misery try to blame it on Israel, in the same way that people maim children to make them "better" beggars.

Meanwhile, the Trondheim synagogue has become one of the best protected buildings in Norway, and Jews live under siege in the Swedish city of Malmö. Vidkun Quisling, the Nazi collaborationist, would have been proud of his heirs, even if now they are self-proclaimed "progressives".

In January 2009, an Arab mob in Malmö pelted a peaceful Jewish demonstration with bottles, eggs and smoke bombs. The police pushed the Jews, who had a permit for their gathering, into an alley.

Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and author.

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43 Reader Comments

Les Peterson • Feb 20, 2017 at 14:03

The countries of my father's heritage, Sweden and Norway, have been almost pathological in their defense of the minority, yet there have always been pockets of a Nazi-like white supremacy, and a hatred of Jews that sits below the surface. Yet for some reason they want to rescue the hundreds of millions of Muslims in the Middle East from the tiny country of Israel, a country which was attacked on the day it was formed, and has been the object of hate in the region for simply existing, and of course, for frustrating the plans of the Salafists, the Jihadis, the Arab nationalists to control any square foot of dirt they have so much as defecated upon in all of recorded history.

Once I was anxious to see the shining experiments of Scandinavian Socialism first hand. No more. They have become the new sick men of Europe, suffering an outbreak of hate like a long forgotten case of chickenpox, but this time made all the more virulent by fresh doses of virus in the form of Islamist immigrants. They will need strong leaders to clean the native born and immigrant disease that plagues them.

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Christopher • Feb 18, 2017 at 10:34

Thank you Mr. Meotti, I honestly did not know that there was so much anti semitism in Scandinavia. This radically changes my views on the plight of native peoples in these countries. Someone MUST explain to the Swedes, the Norwegians, and the Finns, that there are consequences to the blind hatred of the Jews. Maybe if you good time rock and roll hippies ever would read the Bible and sincerely search for him in repentance and prayer, you MIGHT already know that. Until then, any and all attempts to address NUMEROUS issues in your respective countries will be muted at best or utter failures. In the event that you cannot accomplish this Norway, Sweden, and Finland, you should consider changeing your flags to crescent moons and crossed scimitars. Because what's on there now is HIS cross, ya big dummies!

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Mike • Feb 17, 2017 at 23:13

Fortunately, Israel is there and very heavily armed.

Sadly, this is the only reason why another Holocaust won't happen.

Jews on the outside should realise that when it's all said and done, it's only because Israel survives that these dark forces are kept away from their own countries.

Imagine what it would be like to be a Jew in Malmo, or anywhere else in that part of the world, without knowing that Israel is there, in the background, as a final fail-save.

Add to this now another force for good: the USA under Trump. All these Scandinavian idiots hate the USA with a passion, but they should ask themselves what would have become of them otherwise, and then they should say THANK YOU and shut their mouths in shame otherwise.

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evan t • Feb 17, 2017 at 21:15

The Swedes have always had a love affair with fascism, perhaps to compensate for their own moral and physical cowardice.Having been in Sweden many times, I have found them to be intolerably smug and generally prone to telling themselves what to feel, instead of the other way around. The Norwegians, for their part, were completely complicit with the Nazis on the Jews.Fertile soil for Arab hatred.

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PasadenaBob • Feb 17, 2017 at 20:44

Jew-haters usually are self-consumed by their own hatreds. They are defined and consumed by their loathings. As was done with the Nazis, let these haters die by their own hand. Jew-hatred has its own brand of justice.

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Mark Dongen • Feb 17, 2017 at 19:53

In that case the Swedes will be boycotting the use of Mobiles or Cell phones, after all it is a Jewish invention and they are going to boycott everything Jewish?I think the Scandinavians have been in the twilight too long, the lack of Vitamin C has addled not only their vision but the brains. How can boycotting of the Jewish goods in any way influence them they have been ostracised, slaughtered, blamed and cursed for 2,000 years as if the boycotting of another irrelevant people group will make any difference to them.The true God says; "If you curse them I will curse you",

Only a fool says there is no God and boycotting Jewish products is thumbing your nose at God and God's people, wait for the consequences they will be subtle and real.

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Brett McS • Feb 17, 2017 at 19:08

Sounds like what psychologists call displacement:

The Muslims are a protected group in PC society and are beyond criticism, so the anger and fear that they generate in the native population must be re-directed onto another group, one that it is acceptable to hate.

It is also preferable that the target group is somewhere else so that no actual, local victims of the displaced hatred are created - that could spoil the narrative and their useful role as acceptable targets.

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YaakovH • Feb 17, 2017 at 17:41

Let there be no doubt, the general population of Sweden is Anti-Semitic hiding behind the veil of Anti-Israelis however your media publications aren't afraid to declare themselves to be Anti-Semitic based upon their writings and positions. Raoul Wallenberg blessed by his memory, must be spinning in grave. All other Swedes who helped Jews during WW2 and in the aftermath at the DP Camps.However, its now 2017 and a different set of peoples. At least 1/2 of you were born post 1967. Most of you have a thimble full of knowledge about the Israel/Palestinian conflict. You will know even less by banning famous American Jurists such as Alan Dershowitz. All because he will present an opposing posing point of view or facts you've never heard before since Leftists and Muslims have deluged you with sensational, unsupported snippets of fake news, generally or accurate news without context or the preceding events. Soon you may come under the sphere of influence of Putin's Russia with a poxy government so believe what you want because you're headed towards HELL on Earth.Jews of Sweden, Malmo, Stockholm and other places within Sweden; its time to collect all your Assets, offical documents and leave Sweden. There is no reason to =remain there. It could cost you your life, Family home valuables.

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Marc • Feb 17, 2017 at 15:39

Very, very sad. This article shows that leadership counts. People do follow their leaders, in most cases without question, and here we have examples of scandalous Palestinian and Scandinavian nations leaders being pathetic. And they just become consumed and blind to the needs of their own people. They create the Frankenstein monster and can't stop its destruction. Few leaders of integrity and strength left in the West.

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Goldbug • Feb 17, 2017 at 15:15

I am not shocked by Sweden's anti-semitism, but am disappointed that Norway has fallen for the socially-popular nonsense and lies. During WWII, while Denmark and Norway were occupied by the Nazis, Sweden remained free and unoccupied. Why? Because they colluded with the Nazis and provided them with essential war materials, apparently in agreement with their anti-Jew agenda. On the other hand, Danes and Norwegians, under the penalty of death, assisted Jews in escaping Germany via fishing boats. It is easy to see why the ignorant Swedes (und die Führerin Merkel) love their Muslim invaders, since they, too, favored Hitler's Nazism.

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John Lord • Feb 17, 2017 at 13:10

When I was growing up in Ireland, Scandinavia and Sweden in particular, was regarded as the epitome of godless liberalism and religious conservatives might sometimes be heard muttering that it would all eventually end in tears. On the other hand, to be fair, Sweden was often trotted out as an example of a socialist system that actually worked, as successful socialist systems were fairly thin on the ground, to say the least.

But it looks like conservatives might finally be proven right but from a totally unexpected direction. The largely self inflicted problems now bedeviling the once very stable Scandinavian societies are a result of large scale immigration from parts of the world with cultures so removed from the uber liberal Scandinavian one.

But the Scandinavians it seems, have not yet learned their lesson. Though as far north as it is possible to live from the mid east, the Scandinavians have stuck their noses into a central mid east issue, outrageously taking sides with one of the parties. For any nation state engaged in foreign matters, the defining driver must always be self interest anything else in busybody meddling and usually ends in tears.

When the tears start to flow, and flow they will in rivers, and if I'm still around, I will permit myself a small chuckle.

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Carl • Feb 17, 2017 at 13:07

The Jews of Scandinavia & Germany remind me of the kid who walks through a dangerous neighborhood only to get beat up every time. Why did they resettle in those countries after the war? They have been Jew Haters since the beginning of time. I know it is tough to pick up and move, but it is past the time to do it. There are several countries that would welcome them besides Israel & the US. Most are educated and cultured and that is what most countries look for in Immigrants. Let them have their Muslims and see where that gets them in ten years when Sharia Law takes over their countries. As for Mehemet Kaplan, maybe some Imam will look at his last name and issue a fatwah on him. With that last name he is probably a converted Jew himself.

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Jules Levin • Feb 17, 2017 at 12:44

When I was a Fulbright grad student in Oslo, 1964/65, I remember that the local grocery store advertised Jaffa oranges with a large sign--Fra solrike Israel--'from sunny Israel'. How sad is the current Norwegian culture.

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Juanita Skelton • Feb 17, 2017 at 12:42

How true!
This is a process of "scapegoating". People playing the blame game when they can no longer "see" some fruit result in all their labors within their work for the common weal; this is a common thread in this whole Immigrant Crisis in Western Europe.How easy it is to blame Israel. It takes the weight of responsibility off the Scandanavians, and anyone else for that matter, who adheres to that logic.Instant gratification, instant coffee, instant oatmeal...and now, instant blame-targets solve all your problems in international law.Just blame Israel and everything will be brought into sure focus. Then "solutions" to your problems will all become manageable! How tidy and simple!Certainly there are thinking people who know that the complexity of a problem underscores the complexity of complicity...meaning, MANY are to blame for this mess we are all in with regard to undocumented strangers upsetting the status quo.Thank you, Mr. Meotti! Anti-Semitism rises to the rescue of weak nations once again!

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Ron Thompson • Feb 17, 2017 at 12:37

I agree with almost everything I read on Gatestone, so I'm struck that none of it, especially the factual (leaving aside the interpretive) ... NONE of it has appeared in the Washington Post. So, is there an effort to question them,Why the NEWS BLACKOUT?Or is the alternative to have open-minded friends in Congress act?It remains hard to believe what the American people are being kept in the dark about. Seldom has unbalanced or biased news been as harmful as this large scale, willful omission of coverage, this deliberate, irresponsible refusal to cover what is going on all over Western Europe, this unwavering NEWS BLACKOUT.

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Alicie Ron Thompson • Feb 18, 2017 at 22:15

I wonder too. I suggest - as the article (and links within) says, the left has historically defended Hamas and the PLO, Jews in general are associated with capitalism, several Muslim regimes were socialist/nationalist (Assad, Gaddafi, Saddam, Nasser..), and whether left or right, western Europe has bowed down to the rich gulf states who are clients and allies. They have funded and contributed to the spread of Islam and the hatred of Israel. Except now, Israel is a pretext, they're really allies too, against Iran.

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KSP • Feb 17, 2017 at 12:17

Giuliani Meotti. This is a sad day. History repeats itself. If you look at the figures how many Jews there lost their life's during Second World War in Norway, you will be shocked. I have been told that before the war was lists of Jews so it was so easy to ship them away from Norway. There are a Norwegian books called Våre fallne, here you can see all the Jewish families who lost their life's. The reason I know these books are that my uncle who was in the resistance movement, lost his life in a concentration camp. My grandmother had these books.
There has been, as far as I remember, a university study from Bergens University. I think it was from the 70s or 80s.
Please continue to do your great work. Thank you from one now living in Denmark.

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Jack Stark • Feb 17, 2017 at 12:01

Raoul Wallenberg is turning in his grave.

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Kim Bruce • Feb 17, 2017 at 11:46

Sadly, the Jews don't seem to learn that they are the targets of Islamic hatred.Here in Michigan there is a group, I heard on AM760-WJR this morning, that is bringing Muslims and Jews together in peace and fighting the anti-Jewish and anti-Islamic terrorism that is going on in Michigan.
This is funny because the only terror I've heard of is targeting Jews and it is by Muslim students mostly.Oh, there was one case where a Muslim woman claimed a man tried to force her into taking off her hijab by holding a lighter to it and threatening to torch her...it all turned out to be fake news.See MuslimJewishAdvocacy.org"A new national group of leading American Muslims and American Jews coming together to advocate for issues of common concern."

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Saul Troen • Feb 17, 2017 at 10:42

It's about time to list the items that Scandinavia do purchase from Israel such as its technology and medicine and ask Israel to stop sending these items to Scandinavia because of the boycott. If countries boycott - let Israel help in the boycott.

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Victoria Walton • Feb 17, 2017 at 10:32

Great exposé of both ignorance and stupidity running together in agreement. My late father used to say that there is great difference between ignorance and stupidity. One can be remedied, but the other one cannot. How sad that the leaders of the Scandinavian countries are not even conversant with history and they refuse to actually investigate the roots of any event. They take a stand, mostly based on lies and innuendo, and convert it into "leftist racist hateful pablum" that is then regurgitated many thousands of times and then fed to their stupefied masses. People believe what they want to believe often times ignoring the reality in front of their eyes.

The Palestinian situation is deplorable. Your statement about their leadership is totally correct. I doubt Ms. Wallstrom has ever reviewed the history of the 1970 Civil War between Jordan and the Palestinians. The King of Jordan invited the Pals to help them nation build in Jordan. They were given every opportunity to have their own State within a State which is btw, what was envisioned in the land partition of Mandate for Palestine. The PLO tried to topple King Hussein and take over the entire kingdom. They were summarily trounced by the Jordanian Army for their terrorist and treasonous acts and kicked out of Jordan. Today the majority of the people in Jordan are Palestinians and many of them continue to vent their grievances but many others are happy to live in Jordan and work there or work in Israel. Israel has always opened the doors to those who want to live and work with them in peace.

This history will repeat itself many times over unless we confront the terrorists, call them by name and negotiate with the Palestinian people, not their terrorist government. Scandinavia is doomed unless they repair their ignorant stance.

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Carol • Feb 17, 2017 at 09:47

It looks like Stockholm Syndrome has grown to encompass most of Scandinavia. So which comes first, the horse or the cart, or in this case, Scandinavia's formerly latent antisemitism or trying to appease their self-inflicted invasion of a violent, hostile political Islamic invasion, that comes with its own deeply embedded scripturally violent antisemitc history. Is there any cure for this Scandinavian nihilist affliction? Is it coincidence that the more Scandinavia suffers from the ravages of its Islamic invasion the more antisemitic, aka anti-Israeli, (and irrational) it becomes? I believe that there is a strong correlation, if not a strong degree of causation. To a great degree this stems from Eurabian agreements forged and mapped out decades ago, which by Arab demand brought the desemination of Israel-hatred into the most influential European institutions. Elitist, leftist control of these institutions has all but ensured this continuation. Now that the wedding of the Left with Islam and lack of free speech has solidified this trajectory and set onto a course Scandinavian auto-genocide by failure to even hit the replacement growth of the population, as well as its attemps to undermine the belief of the primacy of the family with such things as gender-fluidity, and substitution of the belief in the Transcendant, moral authority for humankind with that of The State or Union.

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Thomas Pratt • Feb 17, 2017 at 09:45

I am proud to say I stand behind the Jewish State and my Jewish brothers!

Our Savior was of Jewish parents and blessed us with teaching truth to all those that choose to listen to his word.

Jesus said to "Love one another."

We must work together to support our brothers the Jewish people. I oppose any politician or countries that will not work in peace with our Jewish brothers & sisters.

Thomas Pratt

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Jeff Page Thomas Pratt • Feb 18, 2017 at 03:21

I will also stand with you and our Jewish Brothers and Sisters, Thomas.

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Dale Jensen • Feb 17, 2017 at 07:59

When you say Scandinavia, you must know that also includes Denmark and Finland; yet neither are mentioned. If antisemitism exists in those countries, should it not have been reported as your article states Scandinavia? If there was reason not to include all of Scandinavia, then that, reasonably should have been mentioned.

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JB Silver Dale Jensen • Feb 22, 2017 at 11:41

Because of Islamist anti-Semitism and Far Left support, it is a problem in Denmark as well. Some schools in 'migrant' areas in Copenhagen refused to accept Jewish students, "for their own protection(!)". That was not a big deal since all Danish Jews, including those who came from Poland after being expelled in 1968, are wealthy enough and established enough, not to need to go to 'immigrant' schools.But THEN, the headmaster of one of the top elite schools in Denmark, stated that he too would not accept Jewish students! Notice, JEWISH. Not even 'Israeli', which would be bad enough.And in Suomi (Finland), because of the Islamist invasion, they are getting antsy, and the short term 'fix' is always to agree with the moslems that the Jews are to blame.

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Philip Neale • Feb 17, 2017 at 07:57

How could these people be so stupid? I don't get it. Living in Ft. Lauderdale I knew many Jews who were kind, generous, considerate and generally classy people. Scandinavia should import more Muslims! What a great idea! It is working so well in the UK, Sweden and France! Far too many "Palestinians" have grown rich thanks to their prolonged conflict with "apartheid" Israel. Follow the money to the self-inflicted "misery". A "two state solution" translates to Jews trying to survive next to a hell hole schooling toddlers in murder and death. The left is hopelessly deluded to the point of self-destruction. So be it.

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Menahem Lester • Feb 17, 2017 at 07:56

Good article. You could have added the Norwegian doctor, Mads Gilbert who is a dedicated anti-semite. He features every time there's a war between Israel and Hamas - & regularly works in the Gaza hospitals highlighting the plight of injured civilians & ignoring the use of the hospital as a command centre.

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Fred • Feb 17, 2017 at 07:52

Your article made my blood boil. I thought Scandinavian above most cultures a progressive future looking, alas it prefer the savage, primitive Jew hatred ( Israel ) conducted by a Leftist Mob of Democrats of which Hitler, Stalin & Mao would be proud to be part. Sad the Rape capitals of Europe have nothing to offer to the world except vile anti Semitism being subordinate to the Muslim mob. Sad Scandinavia once a proud cultured & progressive are now part of sinking heap...

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Andy Gill • Feb 17, 2017 at 07:11

Sweden has become the laughing stock of Europe for its subservience to Islam.

Swedes are so desperate to portray themselves as inclusive, they allow Mulsims to rape their women and harrass their Jews and then deny its happening. Recently we saw a Swedish delegation of women in Iran dressed up in hijabs to show how "respectful" they are towards Islamic misogyny.

Swedes clearly don't realise that Muslims hold them in contempt and despise their weakness. They deserve whatever they get. Their only purpose now is to remind other European countries what happens when you bend the knee to Islam.

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Hanna • Feb 17, 2017 at 06:55

Was it ever not allowed??? ANTISEMITISM is back in style and in full force in Scandinavia and in other European countries. Adolfo Hitler must be smiling in his grave. If the Scandinavian people think that their ANTISEMITISM will endear them to their Muslim citizens, they are kidding themselves. So, don't hold your breath --- you will have to convert to Islam first. How can so-called "normal" people (Scandinavians) be so stupid and distroy their own countries --- and they were nice countries --- only GOD has the answer to this question. Once again --- IT IS TIME FOR ALL JEWS TO LEAVE EUROPE!!! Do not wait too long --- we had THAT experience before.... As far as ANTISEMITISM is concerned, as I said many times --- IT IS HERE TO STAY, PERIOD. Thank you Giulio Meotti and Gatestone.

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Roberto Gonzalez Oliveira • Feb 17, 2017 at 06:43

In 1492 Boabdil Emir of the city of Granada in Spain lamented bitterly for its inevitable defeat in the hands of the Christian armies of Fernando and Isabel. Boabdil's mother said, "Do not cry like a woman you did not know how to defend as a man." The same thing is happening to the Swedes. When they realize that they have lost their identity and their honor of free men in the hands of the Islamists, when they realize that their women ceased to be people to be nothing more than sexual objects it will be very late. They will not be allowed nor will they have the right to complain because they have delivered it cheerfully and without resistance.

You are talking about Scandinavian countries, Denmark is also a Scandinavian country, the only country in the Eu which saved all his Jewish citizens from the German persecution in WW II. Except for some Muslim people at this moment there is no anti semitism in Denmark.Best regards,

Pieter van der Jagt.

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Mike Pieter van der Jagt • Feb 17, 2017 at 23:20

From what I've read/seen/heard, Finland has no particular beef with Jews, either.

Sweden/Norway are where the problem is highly concentrated.

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Kay Thomas Pieter van der Jagt • Feb 18, 2017 at 00:04

Scandinavia consists of 5 countries, apart from Norway and Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Finland. These 3 to my knowledge, are not anti semitic.

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Simon Pieter van der Jagt • Mar 1, 2017 at 18:26

I am Jewish and I've been in Denmark for a little over 10 years. I am not Israeli. I am not orthodox. But I do wear kippah. The amount of hate that one can see on people here, and don't blame it on "some Muslims" but Danes. What the far right call "real Danes" blond blue eyes and tall. Educates people. People that "should know better".

The ignorance, the lack of respect for religion and religious people, of any kind and level of observance. But specially the hate towards the Jewish nation (not the same as Israel, that is a state) is always present.

And the lame rhetoric of "but what happens in Israel..."

I am tired of Danes saying "I am not racist but...." Or "I don't have anything against Jews, but...... .... And remember, none of them died here in WWII" ( which is inaccurate by the way)

Danes should stop their "We are better than" and false heroism.

Yes, their grandparents saved the Jews here in Denmark. And yes, their parents went to kibbutz during the 70s. But now, there is something rotten in the state of Denmark.

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Jeff Page • Feb 17, 2017 at 06:32

Regret, regret, regret. But it will be far too late.To hate Jews who do actually enrich society and cast them to one side in favour of Muslims is downright madness. Both Norway and Sweden will live to regret their blindness. Islam is going to be the downfall of civilised societies across the Western world unless they wake up to the real danger within.

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steve silverstone • Feb 17, 2017 at 06:28

This is Europe's future, the unwillingness and inability to carry more than one idea in their heads. I think you call that totalitarianism. The consequences of Israel and Jew hatred is simple to understand, Europe will be free of Jews and become a much darker place for it and Israel will become even more powerful. This is the key to Jewish survival, whatever is done to weaken us paradoxically makes us stronger. What a conundrum that is for the Jew haters. Bugger!

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lucy • Feb 17, 2017 at 06:28

I cannot believe what is happening in this world. I have no words to describe these terrible events and I totally do not understand what the big plan is here. Are we surrendering our identity, civilisation, freedom of speech and believes. Not only do we already destroy our planet but mankind is going to be destroyed by pure hatred. I am glad to be old. My father fought in the resistance, he will turn in his grave now. I pray for all of us, especially for the Jews.

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Solomon Balas • Feb 17, 2017 at 06:13

Exodus relates that in aid of getting Jews away from their persecutors, plagues were sent. The obsession with hate of Jews is a modern day plague; Jews should learn lessons from Lord Peel's commission that trapped 6 million Jews denying them access to their homeland, for Hitler to finish them. History maybe repeating itself; Muslims in Europe will ride on the back of the hate being generated to administer the genocide .

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Irene Brekelmans • Feb 17, 2017 at 06:12

There was a TV host long time ago, a Jewish man. His parents lived in New York and his father always had a car in his garage, he never drove it, but once a year to the car repair shop to see if everything was still ok with the car and it could move. His son asked him one time :Why do you keep that car there all the time and you never go with it anywhere. His father answered: he had been in the Holocaust, and now I always want to be able to get into my car and flee. People smiled about that, an said that he would never have to worry again as it would never happen again.

Are these the Swedish people who stayed completely neutral in the 2nd WW? I can't believe you any way any more.The troubles between Israel and Palestine have to be resolved from 2 sides, and to write all that in favour of people who are threatening you with death, taking over your country, dictating you what to do, what to wear how to be submissive, and in those newspapers calling Trumps son in law The Jew..... was chosen for the job of ambassador to Israel. In WW 2, the Jews had nowhere to go, we did not stick up for them really, but still have done something.

Only Wallenberg who had the courage and payed for it dearly with his life. And where were the Muslims then?

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Jeff Page • Feb 17, 2017 at 06:09

The end is nigh for Norway and Sweden. If they consider every conflict and trouble in the Middle East can be attributed to the Jews, then they are nothing less than Lunatics! What a crazy bigoted outlook they must have. Are they of a sound mind that they would prefer Muslims rather than Jews? As far as I am aware there are no Jewish Terrorist Cells operating in Europe or the US, but there are many Islamic Terrorist Cells that are ready willing and able to maim and kill Europeans and Americans. I don't think it takes a genius to realise who are the real enemies. But Islamic Terrorism seems to have been accepted by the governments of Sweden and Norway. Probably out of fear of they themselves being attacked. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if deals haven't been made not to attack politicians, but it's okay to attack ordinary citizens in order to get them to submit, and to accept without opposition the Muslims taking over their country.I don't think they realise just what their actions and their submissive approach, is doing to their own futures and the future of the country as a whole. Either that or they simply don't care and are leaving it for future generations to resolve. Hasn't it dawned on Sweden and Norway that the Muslims take control of the streets as a way of displaying their contempt for law in the West. It's called mob rule! Or have they missed this weapon that Muslims use to demand what they want? Fools!

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tiki • Feb 17, 2017 at 06:02

The cold & too much alcohol have affected their brains forever!

Let them live their dream in their Nordic Paradise.

I count on the representatives of the Religion of Peace in their countries to take care of their rude awakening.

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